Raucous cheers greeted Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus as they arrived at their homes today with police motorcycle escorts, marking their returns a decade after they were abducted separately as teenagers.

Gina DeJesus, 23, was wearing a hoodie as she was escorted from a car and she stuck her right hand up in the air with a thumbs up as she was hustled into the house that decorated with dozens balloons and welcome home sign.

Hours earlier, Berry arrived at her sister Beth Serrano's home with her 6-year-old daughter, Joceleyn, who was born on Christmas Day while in captivity.

Berry, now 27, and her daughter were ushered into her sister's house through a back door out of the view of cameras.

Her cousins stood outside, waving to the motorcade and wiping away tears.

Serrano asked for privacy for her sister as she readjusted to life outside of captivity.

"We are so happy to have Amanda home. We request privacy to recover," Serrano said.

A missing poster still rests on a tree outside the home of Amanda Berry Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in C …

The front porch and bushes of the homes were festooned with balloons and teddy bears and a phalanx of press out front.

"Remember this is Amanda's day. She is calling the shots... It's Amanda's rules today," Commander Thomas McCartney, of the Cleveland Police Department told reporters moments before her arrival.

Berry is credited as being the "hero" after she made a brave bolt to freedom on Monday with her daughter by her side. Berry's 911 call led authorities to the home on Seymour Avenue where she and two other women were allegedly kept for a decade.

Amanda's homecoming was something her family and law enforcement said they never stopped believing would one day happen.

"Hope is alive today and our dreams have been answered," McCartney said.

The original missing flyer showing Amanda and a yellow ribbon were tied to a tree outside the home.

Twenty-four hours after making an emotional call to police following her daring escape from 10 years of captivity, Berry made a far different call to family members in Tennessee to let them know she is "glad to be back."

The elation among family members and friends stretched well beyond the home where Berry, 27, and two other women -- Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michele Knight, 32 -- were allegedly held captive on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland.

Berry called her grandmother Fern Gentry of Elizabethton, Tenn., Tuesday to say that the little girl in the hospital photo is her 6-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, according to ABC News affiliate WEWS-TV, which was present during the call.

"Is the little girl your baby?" Gentry asked.

"Yeah, she's my daughter, she was born on Christmas," Berry said.

Many of Berry's relatives, including her grandparents and father, now live in Tennessee. Some of Berry's younger cousins only know her through pictures and stories told by other family members. Berry went missing at age 16 in 2003 while on her way home from a job at Burger King.

"I didn't think she was dead. No, never," Berry said. "Keep hope. Keep hope. Don't give up till you know because I never gave up."

Berry said he knew deep down in his heart that his daughter's "rough and tough" attitude would keep her alive. That's why he spent years putting posters up in every store window, knowing he would one day get that call.

His former wife, Louwana Miller, worked hard to bring their daughter home, pleading with authorities to follow every tip. Miller died in 2006 at the age of 43 after being hospitalized with pancreatitis. Berry suspects she died of a broken heart.

Berry, who is recovering from back surgery, finally received that long-awaited call from a Cleveland relative after his daughter broke through a door and bolted toward freedom.

"There's no way to explain. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. Best feeling I ever had," Berry said.

Michele Knight, who vanished in 2002 when she was 20, is expected to be released from the hospital later today. Knight's mother, Barbara, revealed that when her daughter disappeared, she filed a police report, but no one took her seriously.

Meanwhile this morning, the brothers Ariel Castro, 52, Pedro Castro, 54, and Onil Castro, 50, await arraignment as the men suspected of holding the women against their will. Authorities tell ABC News they plan to start questioning them today.

Another interesting piece of the puzzle that has come to light is a 2004 episode of "American's Most Wanted" that features Ariel Castro's daughter, Arlene, claiming she was the last person to see Gina DeJesus before she was abducted at age 14.

"She gave me 50 cents to call my mom, and so my mom said, 'No,' that I can't go over to her house. And so I told her I couldn't and she said, 'Well, OK. I'll talk to you later,' and she just walked," Castro said.

FBI teams plan to meet with the victims soon as they begin to piece together what they endured inside the modest two-story home on Seymour Avenue.

DeJesus, Berry and her daughter are with their families now at undisclosed locations with police protection.